Politics and Religion
When you attend anti-war protests with thousands of other people, get out of the protest to sit down for a minute and then notice TV cameras a few blocks away, you get curious. When you wonder over to those cameras and find that it's ONE GUY who is protesting the protesters, you start to scratch your head. When you turn on the local evening news that night and clock 15 seconds of coverage to the protest and 30 seconds to that very same ONE GUY, delivering his monologue, then you start to see how things are a little biased.
Funny conversation I had with the ABC news crew. They asked me, "where are all these protesters at?" I said, "there's a few thousand down the street." ABC sat truck guy: "Whatever, I'm not going over there".
A few years back I remember going to The March for Women's Lives, which the organizers estimated that over a million people attended, making it the largest single protest in US history. I gotta say "march" was a bit of a misnomer. There were so many people, it was more of a shuffle. Ani DeFranco, Julianne Moore, Madeline Albright, and even Hiliary were there. The pro-life protesters were there too. All 24 or so of them. That night on the local news, guess which side got more airplay?
